heads in the sand will come after us, as it did in benghazi, as it did to us and other foreigners in algeria and is happening now in mali. this was clear, whether it was a deliberate deception or not, the talking points and spinning is not clear. but it is clear now that there was a coverup because they clearly knew very early on what it was, but for electoral purposes, because obama was living off the killing of bin laden as a way to say, as he was saying again and again in every campaign stop, that al-qaeda is in retreat, al-qaeda is in disarray, al-qaeda is essentially gone. they knew that wasn't true. they didn't want to admit it, but they wanted to get through election day and that's what they succeeded in doing, with the conniveance of the mainstream media. >> what you're saying is profound, charles. what your he' saying they purposely covered up for electoral purposes as you say what they knew to be the tru truth. that to me-- and the media covered it up, that speaks volumes to me that a lot of people don't seem to care. how do you analyze that? >> what i would say, there might have b